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7 unusual facts about Dartington Hall


Kurt Jooss

After touring in Europe and America, Jooss and Leeder opened a school at Dartington Hall in Devon.

Michael Chekhov

Between 1936 and 1939 Chekhov established The Chekhov Theatre School at Dartington Hall, in Devon, England.

Michael Linning Melville

Michael Linning Melville and his wife Elizabeth both died in 1876 and are buried in the old churchyard at Dartington Hall in South Devonshire, England.

Married to Elizabeth Helen, daughter of Randall William McDonnell Callander (died 1858), of Craigforth House Stirlingshire and Ardkinglas House, Argyle, and had issue (1) Robert Melville (judge, of Hartfield Grove Sussex, and Ashford Hall Salops), (2) Elizabeth (married Arthur Champernowne of Dartington Hall, Devon), and (3) Barbara (died young).

Soundart Radio

Founded as a student radio station in 2006 by two graduates of Dartington College of Arts, Nell Harrison and Lucinda Guy, the station moved onto a full-time Community Radio Licence in February 2009 broadcasting to a 5 km radius around the transmitter at Dartington Hall.

Vladislav Shoot

Born in Voznesensk, Soviet Union, he moved to the United Kingdom in the early 1990s, settling on the artists' estate of Dartington Hall.

In 1992 he came to Dartington Hall, England as a composer-in-residence, in which capacity he served until 1995, remaining a resident of the estate to this day.


Arthur Champernowne

Sir Arthur Champernowne (1524 – 29 March 1578) was a politician and Vice-Admiral of the West who lived at Dartington Hall in Devon, England.

Millicent Silver

An important point in Millicent Silver's career came at the end of the war, when at Dartington Hall she was persuaded by the conductor Hans Oppenheim to play the continuo in a performance of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas on a harpsichord.

Sir Edward Seymour, 1st Baronet

At age 13 on 19 September 1576 he married Elizabeth Champernowne, daughter of Sir Arthur Champernowne (d.1578), Vice-Admiral of the West under Queen Elizabeth I, of Dartington Hall, Devon, having been betrothed to her for about ten years.


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Mary Woodvine

Woodvine, along with Rory Wilton, Jerome Wright and Kirsty Osmon together developed, poet Murray Lachlan Young's first play, The Incomers during a residency at The Space, Dartington Hall Trust.

Rupert Taylor

He was educated at the progressive independent Dartington Hall School in Devon and completed a BA degree in Politics and Government at the University of Kent in 1980, followed by an MSc at the London School of Economics in 1981 and a PhD in Sociology at Kent, completed in 1986.